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Letters

identification law here. It is not enforced for statin drugs. Protect Yourself Against Cancer with
with any degree of strictness—I think it Now I have become somewhat con- Food,” in which we suggest that foods
was the satirist Saltykov-Shchedrin who cerned about your recommendations. like organically grown grains, legumes,
wrote, “The harshness of Russian laws Why? Because I have noted that WAPF nuts and berries contain vitamin B ,
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is only mitigated by their non-manda- recommends vitamin B for the preven- which may protect against cancer. We
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tory nature”—but I guess they are just tion of cancer. The internist however do not recommend B supplements.
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waiting for the right moment. So, there’s quotes the American Cancer Society as What is certainly protective against
lots of work to do here. stating, “Vitamin B is nothing more cancer is your “high” (actually per-
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Alexey Maksimov than quackery.” fectly normal) cholesterol level. The
Kiev, Ukraine Would you please justify to me your American Cancer Society and other
recommendation for B . As you might “diet dictocrat” groups consider just
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CONCERNED expect, because of this discrepancy, all about everything we say as quackery.
I have read many of your publica- of your recommendations are suspect. We hope you will base your judgments
tions over the past four or five years, and Richard Klug on true science, not name calling.
I have followed almost every recom- Belvidere, Illinois
mendation therein. My cholesterol runs MAX GERSON CANCER DIET
about 270, even though I exercise a great The only place vitamin B is mentioned Having just watched “A Beautiful
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deal, and I have refused a prescription in our literature is in our flyer “How to Truth,” a documentary about the Max

VACCINATION CONCERNS

I am writing in response to legitimate concerns about conventional immunizations expressed in a letter from a reader
(Wise Traditions, Spring, 2009). The writer requested information regarding a safer method to vaccinate; also, more specifi-
cally, information regarding homeopathic vaccinations.
For a parent or health provider who opts for conventional immunization, there are safer and more sensible ways to
go about doing it. First of all, parents need to research which vaccines to give and which to avoid. Surely, administering a
hepatitis B shot to newborns is uncalled for (see Lynne Born’s informative article on this subject in Wise Traditions, Fall,
2005); or contracting a three-day case of chicken pox involves less risk to a child than injecting a vaccine that carries, among
other harmful substances, a carcinogenic agent. Moreover, since a number of children have an inborn immunity to one or
more childhood diseases, before every vaccine one should establish by means of a titer test an infant’s actual need for a
given antigen.
Once this has been established, inoculate against only one childhood disease at a time, spreading the process out over
a period of many months. This enables a parent to observe and judge each vaccine’s effect more precisely. Something else
to be considered, which at this point is ignored by conventional medicine, namely, the rate of seroconversion in a given
vaccine (meaning, at which point the individual becomes immune to a disease, and to what extent). Statistically, there is
no 100 percent seroconversion for any childhood disease. The highest one that can be reached is about 92 percent; and
for the majority of vaccines (each vaccine has a slightly different rate of seroconversion) the first shot of a given vaccine
establishes in the child around 80 percent or higher of target immunity. Thereafter, booster shots only fractionally raise im-
munity. The implication is that perhaps with most diseases not more than a single dose of each vaccine is really required.
(The one notable exception is the polio vaccine which usually requires a booster shot for 80 percent or more immunity.)
Finally, circumstances permitting, start the vaccination process later—at the earliest between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-four months—in order to give the child’s immature organism and still developing nervous system a chance to
strengthen before it has to assimilate the foreign proteins in the vaccines. In these ways, a parent or health provider can
address each child’s individual needs instead of complying with the indiscriminate conventional approach.

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